Browsing Month 'October, 2010'
Forced Displacement of 100,000 for Kaptai Dam, Bangladesh (1960) In 1960, 100,000 people were displaced as a result of the construction of the World Bank-funded Kaptai Dam. The majority of those displaced belonged to Chakma and Hajong Peoples. Nearly 52,000 displaced people crossed over to India. They are still not recognized as refugees by the [...]
Read more...NATURE, FORESTS AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARE NOT FOR SALE Indigenous brothers of the world: I am deeply concerned because some pretend to use leaders and indigenous groups to promote the commoditization of nature and in particular of forest through the establishment of the REDD mechanism (Reduction Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) and its versions REDD+ [...]
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By Chris Lang, 8th September 2010 In August 2010, the Rimba Raya conservation project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia hit the headlines. “Indonesia project boosts global forest CO2 market,” Reuters reported. But there’s a catch. Two companies that are responsible for vast greenhouse gas emissions are involved in the project: Shell and Gazprom. Yesterday, Friends of [...]
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By Chris Lang, 30th September 2010 At a meeting last week with NGOs in New York, Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia said, “It’s up to us. If we want the Cochabamba Accord, it will be up to the power of the people.” He called for a “an alliance of social movements and progressive governments [...]
Read more...By Chris Lang, 6th October 2008 The latest issue of “Forest Cover“, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition includes several articles about REDD. Miguel Lovera, GFC chairperson suggests chanting “stop the fraud now” might be the best strategy to follow in the run-up to the Climate COP in Copenhagen in 2009: WE all thought [...]
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By Chris Lang, 19th November 2009 The indigenous Ogiek people living in the Mau Forest Complex in Kenya are threatened with eviction to make way for the government’s conservation plans. The government has already started evicting 1,690 non-Ogiek families from the Mau Forest. They have nowhere to go. The Mau Forest Secretariat says that because [...]
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By Chris Lang, 15th January 2010 This week, activists protested outside a Carbon Trading Summit in New York. Executives from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy, American Electric Power and other corporations mingled with representatives from government, carbon credit aggregators, hedge funds and carbon traders. “The same Wall Street bankers who gave us the global [...]
Read more...El V Congreso de la Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo CLOC que se llevó a cabo en Quito, Ecuador, del 8 al 16 de octubre del 2010 emitió una declaración rechazando contundentemente las negociaciones internacionales de REDD, REDD+ y REDD++ que se pretende formalizar en CANCUN México en Diciembre del 2010. DECLARACION FRENTE A [...]
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